230: Jackson Hole, 'Last Christmas' in Saas Fee & 'The Last Ride' Project

Today we look at the iconic resort of Jackson Hole, find out how Saas Fee are celebrating the 40th anniversary of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ and learn about ‘The Last Ride’ film project.

We also have snow reports from Verbier, Les 2 Alpes and La Plagne, an update on the latest ski racing action from Matt Garcka and your feedback.

Host Iain Martin was joined by Jess McMillan from Jackson Hole and Jon Moy from ‘The Last Ride’ project.

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SHOW NOTES

Jon was skiing on sand dunes in the Atacama Desert in Chile (2:00)
Iain will be in Tignes for Christmas (3:00)
He will be travelling in a luxury minibus from Vans For Bands (3:15)
Jen Tsang from That’s La Plagne reported from La Plagne (4:00)
Dave from SnoPros Ski School was in Verbier (6:40)
Alexandra Armand from TipTop Snow Coaching in Les 2 Alpes (8:45)
Find out more about the new Jandri 3S gondola (9:15)
Matt Garcka is host of from the ‘Skiing is Believing’ podcast (10:00)
It is the 40th anniversary of Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ (12:30)
‘Last Christmas’ by Wham! is #1 in the UK charts right now
Laila Zurbriggen is from the Saas Fee Tourist Office
The Capra offers a special ‘Last Christmas’ package for CHF 1170 (16:00)
Email ‘Whamtastic!’ to reservation@capra.ch
Catherine Murphy had just done the WhamWalk (17:30)
Did you meet your partner on a ski holiday or doing a ski season, and do you fancy sharing your story? Drop me an email to theskipodcast@gmail.com (21:00)
Jess McMillan is Director of Events & Partnerships at Jackson Hole (21:30)
Jackson is located in the Grand Teton National Park
Find out more about the Mountain Collective pass (28:45)
Corbets’ Couloir is perhaps the most famous couloir in the world (25:00)
Check out Doug Combs taking it on
Jackson Hole has a limit on ski ticket sales (26:45)
The Golden Ticket means that if you have a season pass you get a 50% discount (27:30)
Jackson has featured in ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘The Last of Us’ (28:45)
Jackson Hole recent broke the world record for the most skiers in jeans (29:30)
Our Twitter poll was NOT in favour of ‘double denim on the mountain’ (30:15)
Jon Moy is the Director of ‘The Last Ride’ project (32:30)
The team have climbed and skied Mt Elbrus, Denali, Aconcagua & Mt McKinley (33:00)
Listen to Iain’s interview with Arnie Wilson (35:45)
Next on the list is Puncak Jaya in Western Papua (36:00)
Has altitude sickness been an issue? (37:30)
How to keep camera equipment working at low temperatures (39:00)
‘The Last Ride’ are using offsetting to counter the carbon footprint of the project (40:15)
Louise Paley is a co-founder of the ‘Piste X Code’ (44:30)

Feedback (43:00)
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